• Senior senator pressures State Bar to restore Multistate Bar Examination

    Daily Journal
    April 29, 2025

    (Subscription required) While law professors and test-takers agree it would improve fairness, the financially strained bar faces contractual and logistical hurdles that could complicate a return to the old format.

  • Judicial Profile: Los Angeles County Commissioner Lucia Murillo

    Daily Journal
    April 28, 2025

    (Subscription required) What grounds her work in either setting is a long view - an understanding of the system's moving parts. Murillo doesn't know only the case law or the policies. She knows what it means to sit across from someone whose child has just been removed, to read between the lines of a social worker's report, and to advocate - sometimes in vain - for a client who has never had anyone in their corner.

  • California Law School Deans Want NCBE Questions Returned for July Bar Exam

    The Recorder
    April 28, 2025

    (Subscription required) Fourteen law school deans and a key state lawmaker say they have deep concerns about the integrity of the bar exam after the state bar revealed a vendor used artificial intelligence to develop some questions on the February test.

    Related: Los Angeles Times

  • New Trump order seeks to name and shame sanctuary cities. Can he go any further?

    San Francisco Chronicle
    April 28, 2025

    Less than a week after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to withhold billions of dollars in federal funds from sanctuary cities and states, he signed a new order Monday promising to terminate funds for governments that decline to assist with federal immigration enforcement.